Cristie Ford
Professor
B.A. (Alberta), J.D. (Victoria), LL.M. (Columbia), JSD (Columbia)
- Office:
Allard Hall, Room 456
- Phone: 604 827 0280
- Fax: 604 822 8108
- Email: ford@allard.ubc.ca
Profile
Dr. Cristie Ford is a leading scholar, nationally and internationally, in the fields of regulation and governance, securities and financial regulation, and administrative law. She has published extensively in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, and has authored two books: Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice (Cambridge University Press: 2017); and Canadian Securities Regulation (5th ed., co-authored with the Right Honourable David Johnston and Kathleen Rockwell). Her work in both securities regulation and administrative law has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada. Recent publications include “The Legal Innovation Sandbox” (with Quinn Ashkenazy, forthcoming Am J Comp L 2025), and “Regulation as Respect” 86 Law & Contemp Probs 133-155 (2023).
Professor Ford is an award-winning researcher and teacher, and served as Associate Dean for the Research and the Legal Profession. She has served on local, national, and international task forces advising regulators and governments, and has been featured or interviewed in media outlets including Bloomberg, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the Vancouver Sun, and the Wall Street Journal (Marketwatch).
Professor Ford obtained her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Columbia Law School, where she also taught as a lecturer, clinic supervisor, and Associate-in-Law. Before joining academia, she practiced law in Vancouver and New York, the latter as a senior litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. She is a non-practicing member of the Law Society of BC and the New York state and federal bars.
Open Source access to Dr. Ford’s work is here.
Research and Publications
To learn more about my research, please visit my PURE Research profile. You can also access my works on the following sites:
Publications
| Cristie Ford “Peter A. Allard School of Law Faculty News” Full text: (2020) 78:2 Advocate 259-261 UBC Library Location |
| Cristie Ford “A New Perspective on Some Familiar Corporate and Business Law Tools” Full text: JOTWELL (July 8, 2019) |
| Cristie Ford “How Much Do You Really Know About Fraud?” Full text: JOTWELL (June 14, 2018) |
| Cristie Ford “Innovation as a Challenge to Regulation” Full text: Reg Rev (March 12, 2018) |
| Cristie Ford “Remedies in Canadian Administrative Law: A Roadmap to a Parallel Legal Universe” in Colleen M. Flood & Lorne Sossin, eds., Administrative Law in Context, 3rd ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2018 pp. 43-85 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “Flexible Regulation Scholarship Blossoms and Diversifies: 1980-2012” in Cristie Ford, Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 pp. 101-120 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 UBC Library Location |
| Cristie Ford “Peter A. Allard School of Law Faculty News” Full text: (2017) 75:6 Advocate 881-883 UBC Library Location |
| Cristie Ford “Plus ça Change” Full text: JOTWELL (June 14, 2017) |
| Cristie Ford “Sedimentary Innovation: How Regulation Should Respond to Incremental Change” in Cristie Ford, Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 pp. 194-217 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “Concrete Suggestions Around Conflict Minerals and Corporate Supply Chains” Full text: JOTWELL (May 31, 2016) |
| Cristie Ford “Clayton Christensen comes to Wall Street” Full text: JOTWELL (September 21, 2015) |
| David Johnston, Kathleen Rockwell & Cristie Ford Canadian Securities Regulation , 5th ed. Markham: LexisNexis, 2014 UBC Library Location |
| Cristie Ford “Drama and Consequence in Accounting Standards Choice (Seriously)” Full text: JOTWELL (June 20, 2014) |
| Cristie Ford “Financial Innovation and Flexible Regulation: Destabilizing the Regulatory State” Full text: (2014) 18 NC Banking Inst. Special Ed. 27-38 Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie L. Ford “Dogs and Tails: Remedies in Administrative Law” in Colleen Flood & Lorne Sossin, eds., Administrative Law in Context, 2d ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2013 pp. 85-123 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “Innovation-Framing Regulation” Full text: (2013) 649:1 Annals Am. Ac. Political & Soc. Sci. 76-97 Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “Prospects for Scalability: Relationships and Uncertainty in Responsive Regulation” Full text: (2013) 7 Reg & Governance 14-29 Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “Regulating Financial Innovation” Full text: JOTWELL (June 19, 2013) |
| Cristie Ford & Hardeep Gill “A National Systemic Risk Clearinghouse?” in Anita Anand, ed., What's Next for Canada? Securities Regulation after the Reference Toronto: Irwin Law, 2012 pp. 145-184 UBC Library Location Online Access (with full-text) Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “A Radical Perspective on the Mundane” Full text: (2012) Jotwell: J Things We Like |
| Cristie Ford & David Hess “Corporate Monitorships and New Governance Regulation: In Theory, in Practice, and in Context” Full text: (2011) 33:4 Law & Pol'y 509-541 SSRN Abstract |
| Cristie Ford & Mary Condon “Introduction to 'New Governance and the Business Organization'” Full text: (2011) 33:4 Law & Pol'y 449-458 Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “Macro- and Micro-Level Effects on Responsive Financial Regulation” Full text: (2011) 44:3 U.B.C. L. Rev. 589-626 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford & Natasha Affolder “Responsive Regulation in Context, Circa 2011” Full text: (2011) 44:3 U.B.C. L. Rev. 463-473 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “New Governance in the Teeth of Human Frailty: Lessons from Financial Regulation” Full text: 2010 1 Wis. L. Rev. 441-487 Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford & Carol Liao “Power Without Property, Still: Unger, Berle, and the Derivatives Revolution” Full text: (2010) 33:4 Seattle U. L. Rev. 889-929 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “Principles-Based Securities Regulation in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis” Full text: (2010) 55:2 McGill L.J. 257-307 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford & David Hess “Can Corporate Monitorships Improve Corporate Compliance?” Full text: (2009) 34 J. Corp. L. 679-737 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie Ford “Smart Enforcement: Trends and Innovations for Monitoring, Investigating and Prosecuting Corporate Corruption” in Transparency International, ed., Global Corruption Report 2009 (in Chapter 5 - Towards a Comprehensive Business Integrity System: Checks and Balances in the Business Environment) Cambridge: Transparency International, 2009 pp. 127-131 Online Access (with full-text) |
| David Hess & Cristie L. Ford “Corporate Corruption and Reform Undertakings: A New Approach to an Old Problem” Full text: (2008) 41 Cornell Int'l L.J. 307-346 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie L. Ford “Dogs and Tails: Remedies in Administrative Law” in Colleen Flood & Lorne Sossin, eds., Administrative Law in Context Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2008 pp. 45-76 UBC Library Location |
| Cristie L. Ford “How Should We Teach Securities Regulation in a Fast-Moving World?”, Book Review Full text: (2008) 46:3 Can. Bus. L.J. 470-480 UBC Library Location |
| Cristie L. Ford “New Governance, Compliance, and Principles-Based Securities Regulation” Full text: (2008) 45:1 Am. Bus. L.J. 1-60 UBC Library Location |
| Cristie L. Ford “Toward a New Model for Securities Law Enforcement” Full text: (2005) 57:3 Admin. L. Rev. 757-828 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie L. Ford “In Search of the Qualitative Clear Majority: Democratic Experimentalism and the Quebec Secession Reference” Full text: (2001) 39:2 Alta. L. Rev. 511-560 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Cristie L. Ford “Review of: The Rights Revolution by Michael Ignatieff” Full text: (2001) 27:4 Can. Pub. Pol'y 516-520 UBC Library Location |
| Cristie Ford “Bright Lines: Status, Recognition and Elusive Nature of Aging” Full text: (1996) 2 Rev. Current L. & L. Reform 4-7 |
Organization Affiliations
- Centre for Business Law
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
Research Interests
- Administrative law and regulatory governance
- Banking and finance law
- Courts, litigation and access to justice
- Jurisprudence, legal theory, and critical studies
- Legal ethics and the legal profession
Innovation and change are profound challenges for law. How can law, especially frontline regulation, respond to ongoing change and uncertainty, while still protecting our most cherished social and justice-oriented commitments?